This podcast explores the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.
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This podcast explores the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.
National Black Lives Matter at School
National Black Lives Matter at School is an organization struggling for liberation and racial justice in education for Black youth, educators, and all youth of color. We work to address racial justice in education by promoting restorative justice, advocating for mental health support, increasing Black teaching staff, ending police presence in schools, and mandating Black history and ethnic studies. Website includes curriculum guides and advocacy demands among other resources.
Democracy Now
We speak with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, about the history of policing in the U.S.
PBS Newshour
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.” Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities.